Fred Meyer

Not only over priced at the Warrenton store, now you can’t check for product prices online with out updating your web browser which is pure smoke as mine is always updated. They just want to attach malware is my guess

I enjoy the fact that this fred meyer has almost everything I need, but when they remodeled they moved products to places that don’t make sense. Why did the peanut butter get moved next to potato chips instead of by the bread?

If I could give it zero stars I would. We live in a small town and fred Meyer thinks because of that they can charge outrageous prices. I HATE THIS STORE. We go to Longview twice a month to avoid shopping in this town. We desperately need a change here.

This review is for the sporting goodss department. I am very surprised at the poor customer service of the two gentlemen at the glass counters. I sat, waited and watched for minutes as they served other «gentlemen» whom walked up to the counter after me (a woman). I had two items on hold and would have been their easiest customer of the day but instead my experienced was dragged out due to the fact that I had to resort to finding a shelf stocker to help me. My husband and I are willing to pay double for sporting goods and ammo to give the money to a family business or a store with customer service/​better products and warranties.

I typically don’t have an inherent love for HUGE companies.
Here it comes again… However (see, I told ya), I gonna make an exception for THIS Fred Meyer store.
I had not been to Freddys since before the big remodel. While all that was going on, I simply got scared away and then got out of the habit (as in habitual, I’m not a nun) of going there.
I went to FM about a month ago and then again about two weeks ago. On both occasions, I couldn’t help noticing that the store is bright, HUGE, well stocked and all (most all) the employees were cheerful, friendly and helpful. So, either FM now gives their employees free Prozac or the working conditions are much less stressful. Likely the latter as I can’t imagine a big company actually giving something to their employees for free.
I almost only buy organic food and especially bulk food when I can cuz this life thing is a real party and I want to run with it.
When I got to the bulk/​health food section, I didn’t find a product that I normally buy. I walked to another part of the store (about 2 miles away) and didn’t find it there either. A little frustrated (Don’t you hate it when people say flustrated instead of frustrated Jeez, I could go on all day about that. Either you’re flustered or frustrated, but I digress.) I found an employee who was busily unloading and stocking merchandise. I asked where this product is and she promptly put everything down and led me back to the original department (another 2 miles) and showed me the product that I had overlooked. I apologized and thanked her for her trouble. She told me it’s perfectly alright, that’s why they are there.
Wow! I dig it! Thanks again!
Anyway, I just wanted to share the good experience here on the north coast of Oregon cuz in the businesses around here and the south Washington coast, good experiences just seem too few and far apart.
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Me

This place is much better after their recent remodel. Super friendly and helpful employees, great prices on groceries, plenty of good sales.

In my 60+ years on this earth, I have been into a lot of department /​big box stores and most of them have employees that just go through the motions to offer service because its «just a job».
This Fred Meyer Store is the exception to my experience!
My wife and I recently purchased a beach house in a nearby community and stopped here to pick up some stuff that we needed as our new beach house was empty. No kitchen stuff, no living room furniture, nada, zilch, nothing! We walked with our full cart past the furniture department (yes a furniture department at Fred Meyers!)
My wife plopped down on a display sofa while exclaiming it was much more comfortable then all of the others she had sat on earlier that day at the local furniture store and tagged at a much lower price.

Barbara, a store employee overheard her and tongue in cheek offered to ring it up for us and take home tonight.
Too make a long story short, after offering us a coupon discount along with the sale price, we purchased the sofa and a matching love seat for much less than the furniture store wanted for just a sofa.
Both pieces seemed well made betraying the low price tag.
We also purchased a vacuum cleaner and some other household items and were ready to check out so Barbara opened a register, rang it all up and then went back to the merchandise pick up area to help load the sofa into the back of our pickup.
This hard working lady had a great attitude, talking and smiling the whole time.
Barbara is a five star employee and hopefully her store manager knows it!
I returned to the merchandise receiving area the following morning to pick up the love seat. A man at the back door greeted me with a smile and we loaded my purchase.
He thanked me for my business and shook my hand as I left. This store has great employees and earned my future business today.

Here we are a year or so after the big remodel and I am back– only because I have a $ 150 gift card. It took me an hour to navigate the place-​which for me, I’m happy getting in and out. Prices seem high, shelves are stocked, employees aren’t to be found, but I really didn’t have to wait in line… Hear that Safeway?!? The produce and meat looked appealing, and a great variety of cheeses. I’m just over the one stop shopping. Just give me a grocery store. If I want hardware, Rx, furniture, paint and ammo I know where to go. And Freddie’s isn’t it.

Pretty grocery store (plus the department store half that I don’t visit much) with large selections and pretty much everything you may need for food. They always have a ton of cashiers, so there’s never much of a wait, and every worker I’ve talked to has been friendly and helpful. Prices are decent, with plenty of items on sale, and not lame sales like 10 for $ 20, buy 3 get 2 free. Salad buffet (plus soups), hot food items (fried chicken, potato wedges, corn dogs), and made-​to-​order $ 5 sandwiches make for a quick lunch here, although the hot stuff doesn’t look so good around dinner hour. My hubby loves the beer selection here, especially the local beers.
My favorites about this place:
–Free cookie samples
–Delicious fresh French bread, and overall great bread section
–Bulk self-​serve items (different types of granola, spices, flours, etc.)
–Large produce section with the small lunch size apples I love

While checking out a the self checkout the attendant asked me if I had my ID with me. Why would one need an ID to shop here? I didn’t answer. The attendant then changed the language on the screen to Spanish even though I am not Hispanic, although not white. Why would she do that? I changed the language back to English and checked out and left. Seems a clear case of racial profiling to me, although for what reason is beyond me.

One stop shopping!!! What else is there to say? You can get gas, groceries, clothes, home décor, and an eye exam all in the same place. Think of the gas money you save just shopping here without multiple trips to other stores. Not to mention the lowest gas prices in town. Rock on Freddie’s.

The staff at this location seem to have less of an idea of what’s going on than the already confused shoppers. They shift about frantically and awkwardly, like a herd of cattle that has been injected with benzodiazepine. And while I understand that they are going through a massive construction process, consumers need to also realize that the reason they are going through this process in the first place is most likely because competition is finally coming to their town. And it’s not the typical lazy, unionized horse crap that we’ve become accustomed to out here. It’s competition that stands to actually crush these idiots and watch them squirm.
At first, you might feel bad. It’s only natural. But when you can walk into the competition’s store and buy the very same box of diapers for six dollars less, it’ll hit you, and you’ll realize that Fred Meyer has been bending you over the entire time.
That’s how Fred Meyer is, baby. And his jimmy runs deep!

Yeah, just another tourist passing through. BUT… I’m a Fred Meyer regular at many locations. This store is the least well laid out, most over loaded, least user friendly one I’ve EVER been in. The line for the pharmacy is basically in the middle of an isle! I wasn’t even pushing a cart and found isles hard to fit down, don’t ask me how you get those jumbo Freddy’s sized carts down many of them! The parking lot was more like a psychotic mystery game, where you have to guess which way to turn in order to not DIE finding a parking space! :(

It’s a good one-​stop-​shopping place, although a bit on the pricey side. Not as bad as Safeway, but slowly heading there. The deli service SUCKS. We waited for about ten minutes to take oír order, and nothing. There was one lady helping a customer, and another one not paying attention to her surroundings and noticing the five people at the deli. I frequent Freddys, and it seems the only time somebody wants to help me at the deli is when I’m looking at the stuff under the hot cases.

Wait time at checkout is horrible! Management is clueless

Panini are always a good bargain. This store has a touch of state history near the food doors. I read that this store is about to expand and remodel, likely as a result of the nearby site about to be developed into a Walmart.
This site has a little different floor plan than most newer Fred Meyer stores, but the «what’s on your list today? You’ll find it at Fred Meyer» mantra still mostly rings true.
There is a fuel island on the site, which tends to be very busy as it is some of the least expensive gasoline on the coast. If you’re shopping here, grab a «rewards» card and with $ 100 spent, you get 10c/​gallon off posted prices. Even if you didn’t hit that, I believe a scan of the card cuts the posted price by 3c/​gallon.

The Warrenton Fred Meyer is a lot like most other Fred Meyer stores in Oregon, Washington and Idaho. My only gripe about this store is the main entrance. Whoever had the bright idea to have the doors from booth sides open in to that cramped entry area needs a wake up call. It is always a bit of a boondoggle with people and carts all mishmashed and trying to get into the store. Stil a good place to do your ‘one stop’ shopping, and to grab last minute necessities.

I’m grew up in this area, so Fred Meyer was, and still is when I visit, simply «the store.» I love that they have everything, and hear that the employees get paid decently and even have insurance (think about THAT, people who want a stupid Walmart in Warrenton… smh).
Anyway, having actually ventured outside the county and state, I find their prices pretty fair, and you can often get some great deals on clothing. Yeah, it does get pretty busy in the summer, but so does everything else on the North Coast.

This location is pretty hit or miss when it comes to just about everything. There are a few associates that really stand out for their friendliness and customer service, the pharmacy is decent and has been really efficient for my regular prescription needs, the produce staff are always helpful, and checkout is never too crowded, though can be slow depending on the clerk.
Groceries tend to be much higher priced, and produce selection ranges from dismal to average. The bakery is well stocked as is the deli. One of the deli staff (older lady) is as dense as a brick. Asked her to cut a sandwich in two and you thought I asked her to do heart surgery. Easily flustered. The nameless, short, squat, brown haired customer service clerk is a witch, with a capital B. She couldn’t smile if you pulled her lips off. (was actually a fantasy of mine when she was being very rude).
The fuel station is total chaos, especially when all of the ass clown tourists invade with their SUV’s and trailers. They really need to make all of the lanes uni-​directional, as there are many near misses and long waits due to people driving all over the place impatiently to get to a pump. I have found that I get better fuel savings with my Safeway card than I do at Freddies.
Sore is pretty uninspired overall. Parking lot is known for its many hit and runs, so be careful, especially during the tourist rush.

From the outside, Fred Meyer just looks like a large supermarket, part of Kroger, with an outside gas station, but it’s also a department store too, one stop shopping under one roof. I rolled in here on a typical weeknight to get some snacks for later that night. I also noticed that the gas prices here were the among the lowest I’ve seen along my route, so what the heck, while I was here, got my ride fueled up. It’s full serve in Oregon (New Jersey does this too).
Afterwards, I go inside to buy some snacks. This Freddy’s is pretty big and offers groceries, organic foods, electronics, music & movies, one hour photo, pharmacy, optical, apparel, jewelry, footwear, toys, home & garden, furniture, books (very limited) & magazines Starbucks, and more.
I picked up some orange juice and chips, but I also did some shopping the Men’s Apparel dept to take advantage of the tax free shopping and picked up some clearance item shirts for 40 percent off the lowest price, pretty good deals, but I was unable to check the actual price of the goods because the price check scanners were busted storewide. The store has two entrances with checkouts, but there were very long lines at the Hwy 101 entrance, so I found shorter lines at the other side near groceries. I ended up using a self checkout and was satisfied with the discounts I got.
In all, this visit to Freddy Meyer’s house cost my credit card $ 89.05: $ 35.00 on gas outside, $ 49.76 on 4 men’s shirts, and only $ 4.29 on the orange juice & chips, my original intention for stopping here.
I lucked out on this visit to Fred Meyer with those impulse buys. However, the many items at regular prices without coupons or sales were on the pricey side than what I’m used to seeing at other stores, particularly in groceries. IMHO, I prefer to have everyday low prices instead of waiting for sales on certain days.